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A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Knopf

JenniferEgan 9780307477477 Jennifer Egan is the recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, which was also awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award. Here's how today's #GumballSA debacle reminds me of an excellent novel I just read. + Add Mark Larson marklarson Member since 2006. I read Beloved recently and that reaffirmed my general avoidance. Today a scandal broke on Twitter. When I compose a particularly lucid text message, I'm not sure how I'll top it, so I can only assume a post-Pulitzer existence similarly nerve-racking. I recently finished Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad and quite enjoyed it. Egan said a planned HBO television series would “try to capture the polyphonic quality” of her novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction on Monday. So after a great start in 2011 with a couple of decade old modern classics, we're rushing in to (relative) new release territory. Posted by Stephanie on March 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment. Jennifer Egan's latest book, A Visit from the Goon Squad, is a book written for the age of blog posts and Facebook. Her books include A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Invisible Circus, Look at Me and The Keep. But in Jennifer Egan's latest book, A Visit from the Goon Squad, an array of stories mix into a cohesive novel, each chapter self-contained yet fluid as the grooves of an LP. If I won the Pulitzer I might never recover. Admittedly, I am a bit weary of Pulitzer prize winners. The novel I chose to study is called A Visit From the Goon Squad, and it's written by Jennifer Egan. Failed flashmobs, gumballs and a Visit from the Goon Squad. Title: A Visit from the Goon Squad. The thirteen chapters of "A Visit from the Goon Squad" are like lily pads on a pond. A Visit From the Goon Squad somehow passed my initial Pulitzer “weed out”, and thank goodness it did. A Visit From the Goon Squad reminds me of abstract art.